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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Painting the Stairs 4–Geraniums in a Basket

The past few days have been spent mostly working on the mountain cleaning so painting has taken a back burner. But that does not mean I don’t have something to share. I have finally be able to paint another step on our staircase. I waffled for a while on what to paint.I thought maybe Hydrangeas, daisies or poppies….but none of those seemed to fit that step (I may do any of those on the next)…finally it struck me that a basket of red Geraniums would do the trick.I started with the basket…And then some leaves…Because the craziness of life set in, it sat like this for a couple weeks!Sophie made it her spot and when I asked her to move so I could work on it….she glared at me with a look that said…..“Bug me and die!”She finally, none too graciously, moved herself to a spot behind the wood stove.And I continued painting the stems and a few background buds.(if you wish to see a full tutorial with Video just click HERE)Next I added more buds with a touch of white and a brighter red.A few trailing stems or vines to add some width. And voila’ the step is done…well, mostly done, I will add some shadowing to give it depth.Though looking at the photos I think I should’ve taken the buds up on to the tread to give it more height.Hmm…what do you think?4 steps done and just a couple more to go.Hunching down to do the bottom one is going to be killer!

If you wish to see a full tutorial painting a Basket of Geraniums click HereFor some reason I cannot find where I posted on painting the Yellow Rose bouquet.Did I do a post on that one?Too much going on around here, I am losing it!

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I like gardens of all kinds,my little house in the woods,my painting cottage, chickens (also known around here as "The Ladies") and building things. I paint flowers as well as grow them. Stop in anytime to see what I have been up to.